Rick Harris

Put God In Your Marriage - Poem by Rick Harris

The love of newlyweds is special and newTheir future is bright and fresh as dewFull of promise and their hope is brightNo problem too big that they can't fight.

The first two years, the threat is realSo say the experts, of win or failBut these two are tried and trueThe threat has come and gone; their love is still new.

The first five years have come and goneThrough trials and tribulations, they're still as oneTheir love for each other is just as brightTheir dreams of the future is looked on with delight.

Six years, seven years, eight years go pastDreams of the future now don't lastEven though they say they love one anotherThey look at each other and silently wonder.

The fights and arguments begin to increaseAnd the love for each other begin to decreaseWhere once they considered the feelings of each otherNow it's too much trouble; they don't want to bother.

They've never gone to church; God is a strangerThey go on through life, not seeing the dangerThey silently ask themselves, 'should this marriage continueOr should we just stop it now, it's no longer new? '

Once they would agree; now it's 'You're wrong, I'm right! 'Not willing to budge, but preparing to fightThey forgot true love and the vows they once cantedNow all they do is take each other for granted.

They look to the future, now it looks bleakPast fights and emotional scars have made them weakWithout God there to help them growThey decide to quit, divorce and go.

If only they would have invited Jesus from the very startInto their lives, and marriage and heartsThere still would be struggles, there and hereBut God's Word says Not To Fear

Your hearts He will refresh daily and love made newAnd gives you wisdom to know what to doOn Him all your fears and troubles do you castAnd your marriage will be all joy and will continue to last.

What I have spoken here is tried and trueMy love for my wife is just like newOver thirteen years we have been wedAnd by God's Word we are still led.

So please, you newlyweds and everyone reading this nowInvite God into your hearts, and you will see howYour love for each other will always burn brightAs long as you continue in God's Holy Light.

Comments about Put God In Your Marriage by Rick Harris

your poems my friend are beautiful! keep writing-I would love to read more and thank you as well for your kind words about 'That little country Church'-I am just now seeing your message written so long ago-thanks for reading my heartfelt poems too...blessings-Becky(Report)Reply